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Dawson City, officially the City of Dawson, is a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–1899). Its population was 1,577 as of the 2021 census , [ 6 ] making it the second-largest municipality in Yukon.
Hand-coloured photo of Dawson city c. 1899 at the end of the gold rush. By 1899 telegraphy stretched from Skagway, Alaska, to Dawson City, Yukon, allowing instant international contact. [299] In 1898, the White Pass and Yukon Route railway began to be built between Skagway and the head of navigation on the Yukon. [300]
The Yukon Hotel is a National Historic Site of Canada [1] and part of the Dawson Historical Complex. It is a log building with a three-storey false facade [2] on First Avenue at the corner of Church Street in Dawson City, Yukon. The building was constructed during the Klondike Gold Rush [3] in 1898 by J.E. Binet, who named it Binet Block.
Alaska Transportation Company was founded on April 5, 1898, in Seattle, Washington by Andrew F. Burleigh (1846-1907) and George W. Dickinson. Alaska Transportation Company was formed to cash in on the gold rush happening around Dawson City and Nome in Canada, known as the Klondike Gold Rush.
Paying with gold dust in a Dawson City grocery store, 1899. Duclos was born in Quebec and moved to Maine where he learned photography. He moved to Dawson with his wife Emily in 1898 via St. Michael, Alaska and the Yukon River. He mined on Lovett Gulch until he joined the studio. Duclos specialized in portraits while Larss photographed gold rush ...
In 1953, the capital of the territory was moved from Dawson City to Whitehorse. From the late-20th century, ... three years later on 13 June 1898, ...
The force's two 7-pounder guns are on display at the offices of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Dawson City. [47] Four of the officers who served with the force later rose to the rank of Major-General during the First World War. Major T.D.R. Hemming, as Major-General (CMG), commanded Military District No. 3 from 1913 to 1918.
The first to propose a concrete solution for these shortcomings was a businessman by the name of John H. Mackenzie. Arriving in 1898 via stern wheeler from St. Michael to Dawson City, Mackenzie first tried his luck in mining ventures between Fox and Monte-Cristo Gulches, only to reach the conclusion that far greater riches were to be found in the provision of various services to the miners.